Where did the Irish McAuliffe family come from? What is the Irish McAuliffe family crest and coat of arms? When did the McAuliffe family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the McAuliffe family history?

The name McAuliffe has undergone many variations in the time that has passed since its genesis. In Gaelic it appeared as Mac Amhlaoibh, which denotes a son of Auliffe or a son of Humphrey.

Lacking standardized spellings, scribes and church officials recorded people's name according to how they sounded. This practice often led to the misleading result of one person's name being recorded under several different spellings. Numerous spelling variations of the surname McAuliffe are preserved in the archival documents of the period. The various spellings of the name that were found include MacAuliffe, MacCauliffe and others.

First found in County Cork (Irish: Corcaigh) the ancient Kingdom of Deis Muin (Desmond), located on the southwest coast of Ireland in the province of Munster, where they held a family seat from ancient times.

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our McAuliffe research. Another 408 words(29 lines of text) covering the year 1720 is included under the topic Early McAuliffe History in all our PDF Extended History products.

Many Irish families boarded ships bound for North America in the middle of 19th century to escape the conditions of poverty and racial discrimination at that time. Although these immigrants often arrived in a destitute state, they went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations of the United States and Canada. An inquiry into many immigration and passenger lists has revealed many early immigrants to North America bearing the McAuliffe family name:

McAuliffe Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Denis McAuliffe, aged 28, landed in New York, NY in 1849

John McAuliffe, who arrived in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1854

Malachi McAuliffe, who landed in Arkansas in 1859

Eugene McAuliffe, who arrived in Arkansas in 1860

McAuliffe Settlers in Canada in the 19th Century

James McAuliffe, who landed in Nova Scotia in 1834

John McAuliffe, aged 30, a labourer, arrived in Saint John, NB in 1837 aboard the barque "Robert Watt" from Cork

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Skordas, Guest. Ed. The Early Settlers of Maryland an Index to Names or Immigrants Complied from Records of Land Patents 1633-1680 in the Hall of Records Annapolis, Maryland. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992. Print.

The McAuliffe Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The McAuliffe Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.